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Conservative Pundit Slams Fox News Hosts as 'Evil' for Suggesting Omicron Variant Is Made Up

Conservative Pundit Slams Fox News Hosts as 'Evil' for Suggesting Omicron Variant Is Made Up
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The conservative Fox News network has repeatedly echoed GOP talking points in its constant dismissal and disinformation regarding the virus that's killed more than 750 thousand Americans.

The network has platformed lies about the lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines, which are proven to be safe and effective. Its hosts have railed against even the most basic public safety measures, painting them as tyrannical takeovers.


What's more, the disinformation campaign is working, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation study released earlier this month, which found that Fox News viewers were more likely to believe pandemic falsehoods than those who consume other outlets.

Now, scientists are scrambling to study the new omicon variant of the virus, which was discovered by South African scientists earlier this month and deemed a variant of concern by the World Health Organization (WHO) earlier this week.

Key questions regarding the omicon variant, such as its ability to evade vaccines and its potentially faster transmissibility rate, have yet to be answered, but Fox News hosts were already leaping to dismiss concerns over its emergence.

Watch below.

Fox host Pete Hegseth and his colleagues suggested Democrats were orchestrating new variants of the virus in order to save face politically or to impose more lockdowns. It was just the latest in Fox News' barrage of falsehoods regarding the pandemic.

That didn't sit well with CNN pundit and self-described "practical conservative" S.E. Cupp, who decried the Fox's preemptive downplaying of the variant.

Watch below.

Fox News suggests Democrats invented Omicron variantyoutu.be

Noting how "bonkers" it is to claim a political party is conspiring with a web of entities to drum up a new variant, Cupp said:

“It is irresponsible, but that's the floor. That’s evil. That is evil. To get up and tell your viewers, ‘Don’t worry about it. It’s probably just made up and so don’t believe any of the other science. Don’t believe about vaccines or boosters or anything else because it’s probably just Democrats. I don’t know another word for that.”

Social media users widely agreed.



And Cupp was far from the only one to call Fox out.






Health officials are scrambling to prepare for the inevitability of the variant's arrival in the United States.

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